Tennstedt 'Resurrection from LPO

[mahlerei]

Worth adding to the wish list:

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/futurereleases.php?composer=&work=&performer=tennstedt&medium=all&label=&cat=

[barry guerrero]

I saw him do a terrific performance of the "Resurrection" at RFH in early 1981, I think. By 1989, he was beginning to get slower and slower with his tempos. Hopefully, he's not excessively slow here.

Barry

[waderice]

I saw him do a terrific performance of the "Resurrection" at RFH in early 1981, I think. By 1989, he was beginning to get slower and slower with his tempos. Hopefully, he's not excessively slow here.

Barry

That '81 performance you saw was at about the time of his recording of the work, I think.  It is a great performance, IMHO.  Probably his slower tempi might have had something to do with his advancing cancer, which took his life.  A big loss to the world of music, as he was really getting to the peak of his career.

Wade

[barry guerrero]

Yes, the EMI studio recording came out about two years after that.

[mahlerei]

I saw him do a terrific performance of the "Resurrection" at RFH in early 1981, I think. By 1989, he was beginning to get slower and slower with his tempos. Hopefully, he's not excessively slow here.

Barry

Hmm, his live Mahler 1 from 1990 isn't excessively slow. In fact it seems brisker than either Chicago at roughly the same time and certainly brisker than his 1977 recording for EMI.

[mahlerei]

Yes, the EMI studio recording came out about two years after that.

The studio 'Resurrection' was recorded at Kingsway Hall in May 1981. Tennstedt wasn't always at his best in the studio, so this live M2 should be worth hearing.

[barry guerrero]

I guess I'm remembering wrong, but I thought that his Mahler 3 came out before the 2nd. I remember that the Tennstedt, Maazel, Slatkin, and the one with the RPO on Vox Box (conducted by the guy who used to conduct the Oakland Symphony), all roughly came out around the same time. Anyway, at that time, we used to compare that group. A few years later came the Rattle, Ozawa, Gilbert Kaplan, and Bernstein (DG). Wow, none of those would be first choices for me these days. Yet, I could probably easily live with most any of them.

[mahlerei]

I guess I'm remembering wrong, but I thought that his Mahler 3 came out before the 2nd. I remember that the Tennstedt, Maazel, Slatkin, and the one with the RPO on Vox Box (conducted by the guy who used to conduct the Oakland Symphony), all roughly came out around the same time. Anyway, at that time, we used to compare that group. A few years later came the Rattle, Ozawa, Gilbert Kaplan, and Bernstein (DG). Wow, none of those would be first choices for me these days. Yet, I could probably easily live with most any of them.

Agreed, none would be at the top of my list either Checked the Gramophone archiev and see the EMI Resurrection was reviewed in May 1982. Two LPs, the CD still a year away.